One For Joy...

Shot at Cubbon Park, Bangalore.

- Steve

Peeping Tom

Shot at Cubbon Park, Bangalore.

- Steve

Should I?

Shot at Cubbon Park, Bangalore

- Steve

What Are You Looking At?

Shot at Cubbon Park, Bangalore.

-Steve

In The Midst

Shot at Cubbon Park, Bangalore.

-Steve

High Rise

Shot at Cubbon Park, Bangalore.

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Caught By Surprise

Shot at Cubbon Park, Bangalore.

-Steve

Beauty Is, But Skin Deep...

Same location as the one below.

- Steve

Spotless...

Taken on 13th January 2006 from a terrace in Bangalore.

- Steve

The Protector - On Canvas

Was painted by the artist in the snap titled "Creativity"

- Steve

The Protector

Shot at the downtown Kirkland pier to Lake Washington, Seattle.

- Steve

Seattle Waterfront

Shot from the office of QPass Inc., downtown Seattle (May 2005)

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Downtown Seattle

Shot in May 2005.

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Creativity

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

- Erich Fromm

Curiosity

The Hills erect their Purple Heads
The Rivers lean to see
Yet Man has not of all the Throng
A Curiosity.

- Emily Dickinson

Serene

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency.

- Anne Lindbergh

By The Road

A little rose bloomed in the way
In which I roamed one sunny day;
It looked so fair,
I wondered why alone it grew,
And why so long concealed from view
While nestling there.

Its blushing petals, wide outspread,
A richer perfume quickly shed,
Dripping with dew,
Which seemed in whispered tones to say,
As soon I put the thorns away,
I bloomed for you.

- D. A. Brown, The Rose By The Wayside

The Light Within

Light is the first of painters.
There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (ch. 3)

Reflection

By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
And third by experience, which is the bitterest.

-Confucius

Freedom

I will not follow you, my bird,
I will not follow you.
I would not breathe a word, my bird,
To bring thee here anew.

I love the free in thee, my bird,
The lure of freedom drew;
The light you fly toward, my bird,
I fly with thee unto.

And there we yet will meet, my bird,
Though far I go from you
Where in the light outpoured, my bird,
Are love and freedom too.

-George William Russel, Freedom

Contemplation

The Lassitudes of Contemplation
Beget a force
They are the spirit's still vacation
That him refresh -
The Dreams consolidate in action -
What mettle fair

-Emily Dickinson, The Lassitudes of Contemplation